The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

An ancient civilization that ruled Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago was likely wiped out because of disastrous dust storms, a new study suggests. The Akkadian Empire, which ruled what is now Iraq ...

Fort Bend County Libraries’ Sugar Land Branch Library will present an educational series focusing on "Ancient Civilizations." In this first program, former art and architecture history professor Sheba ...

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from March 18-July 27, 2020. Translated and adapted from L'histoire commence en Mésopotamie, which was published ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E. Their research was published Wednesday ...